Nearly 200 of them, wearing special T-shirts and holding signs, applauded in May when supervisors voted against giving conditional use approval to Liberty.

At issue in the court ruling is township zoning that seeks to keep high-volume truck traffic off local roads and on major expressways. Developments that serve more than 100 tractor-trailers per day are required to be within 3,000 feet of an entrance to Routes 22 or 33.

Supervisors concluded that the proposed distribution center is not close enough to the highways and that the project would generate twice the allowed number of trips a day.

Liberty's attorney, James Preston, argued in court last November that 200 daily trips would equal merely 100 trucks arriving and departing, two trips for each every one truck.